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• I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

  Amy Winehouse

  Pictures Of Myself, Hospitals

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• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Queens, Would Be, Queen Elizabeth

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• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Common Sense, Religion

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

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• I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Father, Thinking, Light

  "Spielberg: A director's life reflected in film". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Smart, Kids, Rope

  "Wonder Woman's New Era". Interview with Richard George, www.ign.com. June 29, 2010.

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• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Real, Pension Plans

  "Will Young Voters Sink Obama In 2012?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2011.

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• When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Virginia, Firsts

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• I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musician, Would Be, Lifetime

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Rolling

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Father, Self

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• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  Barry White

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Corruption

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,'' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.'' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Kings, Pain, Nice

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• I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Children, School, Bird

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• I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

  Steven Spielberg

  Father, Vision, Stories

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• I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Cities, People

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• It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

  Jordin Sparks

  Real, Sound, Doe

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• I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

  Kevin Smith

  Birthday, Guy, Firsts

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• War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

  Mitch Albom

  War, Men, Sometimes

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

  Barbara Pym

  People, Upset, Library

  Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”

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• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Ideas, Anorexia

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• Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

  Lucinda Williams

  Age, Peter, Mary

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